Donkey Kong 3 - Nintendo (NES) Retro Replay
2While the Donkey Kong games were getting better as the newer systems came out I feel Donkey Kong 3 was my least favorite on the NES. Still fun to play but was more repetitive without much moving around on the screen.. You were kind of stuck in the middle of the screen going up and down rather than moving all around the screen like in the earlier version of Donkey Kong.
The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit third-generation home video game console produced by Nintendo. It was first released in Japan in 1983 as the Family Computer (FC), commonly known as the Famicom. The NES, a redesigned version, was released in American test markets on October 18, 1985, before becoming widely available in North America and other countries.
After developing a series of successful arcade games in the early 1980s, Nintendo planned to create a home video game console. Rejecting more complex proposals, the Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi called for a simple, cheap console that ran games stored on cartridges. The controller design was reused from Nintendo's portable Game & Watch games. Nintendo released several add-ons, such as a light gun for shooting games.
The NES was one of the best-selling consoles of its time and helped revitalize the US gaming industry following the video game crash of 1983. It introduced a now-standard business model of licensing third-party developers to produce and distribute games. The NES featured a number of groundbreaking games, such as the 1985 platform game Super Mario Bros. and the 1986 action-adventure games The Legend of Zelda and Metroid, which became long-running franchises. It was succeeded in 1990 by the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. In 2011, IGN named the NES the greatest video game console of all time.
Developer - Nintendo R&D2
Manufacturer - Nintendo
Type - Home video game console
Generation - Third
Release date - JP: July 15, 1983 (Famicom)
NA: October 18, 1985
EU: September 1, 1986
EU/AU/IND: 1987
BRA/ZA: 1993
Lifespan 1983–2003 (Famicom)
1985–1995 (NES)
Introductory price - ¥14,800 (Japan)
US $179 (equivalent to $490 in 2021)
Discontinued - NA/EU/AU: August 14, 1995 (NES)
JP: September 25, 2003 (Famicom)
Units sold - 61.91 million
Media - ROM cartridge ("Game Pak")
CPU - Ricoh 2A03/2A07 @ 1.79/1.66 MHz
Controller input - 2 controller ports
1 expansion slot
Best-selling game - Super Mario Bros. (pack-in), 40.24 million (as of September 13, 2010)
Duck Hunt (pack-in), 28.3 million
Super Mario Bros. 3 (pack-in), 18 million (as of July 27, 2008)
Super Mario Bros. 2, 10 million
Predecessor - Color TV-Game
Successor - Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Related - Famicom Disk System, Famicom 3D System